{"id":15453,"date":"2019-03-01T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=15453"},"modified":"2019-03-01T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:57:30","slug":"pathology-laboratory-medicine-news-items-winter-2018-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2019\/03\/01\/pathology-laboratory-medicine-news-items-winter-2018-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 Winter 2018\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items \u2013 Winter 2018\/2019<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Announcements:<\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

Recent Faculty Promotions<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Duffy, MA<\/u><\/strong>; Assistant Professor<\/u><\/strong> of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine<\/p>\n

Carolina Lyon de Ana<\/u><\/strong>, a former Pathology Masters student in the lab of Dr. Susan Winandy<\/u><\/strong>, published her Masters research as part of a first author publication in The Journal of Immunology! Other authors include Ksenia Arakcheeva<\/u><\/strong>,\u00a0Nicole Derosia<\/u><\/strong> (a current Pathology Masters student) and Dr. Parul Agnihotri<\/u><\/strong> (a former PhD student). Congratulations to all! Check it out online: Lack of Ikaros deregulates inflammatory gene programs in T cells by Carolina Lyon de Ana, Ksenia Arakcheeva, Parul Agnihotri, Nicole Derosia and Susan Winandy. The Journal of Immunology. 202: 1112-1123. The article was chosen as the Editor-In-Chief’s pick of the issue and will be featured in the “In This Issue” section, which highlights articles considered to be among the top 10% of articles published The Journal. BRAVO Carolina!!!<\/p>\n

Dr. Ivana Delalle<\/u><\/strong> was invited as one of 9 international speakers at the symposium held in Boston on Nov 28, 2018 \u201cLongwood extracellular vesicle symposium: from science to therapeutics\u201d<\/p>\n

Nancy S. Miller, M.D<\/u><\/strong>. was an invited speaker at the TriMark Point of Care\/Critical Care Conference, October 12, 2017 in Dedham, MA. Dr. Miller will present: \u00a0“What’s the Point? A Point of View About Point of Care and Diagnostic Microbiology Testing in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Miller<\/u><\/strong> also presented \u201cA point of view about point of care testing for diagnostic microbiology in the U.S.\u201d at the Global Applied Microbiology Conference, October 18-19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n

Dr.<\/u><\/strong> Miller<\/u><\/strong> was an ASM Distinguished Lecturer at the Southern California Branch-American Society for Microbiology, October 27-28, La Jolla, CA. \u00a0Also at La Jolla, Dr. Miller was invited to a breakout Educators\u2019 Session and presented, \u201cClinical Microbiology at the Crossroads: A Potpourri of Challenges and Lessons Learned in this Era of Evolving Technology\u201d<\/p>\n

Troy Sanders, a MAMS student in the lab of Dr. Susan Winandy<\/u><\/strong>, has been accepted into medical school at UCLA. He has also been awarded the prestigious Geffen Scholarship, which will pay for his tuition and room\/board. Congratulations Troy!<\/p>\n

Dr. Israa Laklouk<\/u><\/strong> won the first place resident research award at the USCAP meeting in Vancouver, for her first author abstract: Impact of racial and ethnic differences on the accurate classification of thyroid nodules using ThyroSeq Next-Generation Sequencing. Coauthors are Cecilia Ponchiardi<\/u><\/strong>, David Kindelberger<\/u><\/strong>, and Sandra Cerda<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/b>In Mid-October one of our new Masters Students, Amanda Araujo, <\/u><\/strong>attended and presented at the Northeastern Association of Forensic Sciences (NEAFS) conference in Bolton landing, NY. She presented her undergraduate research in forensic biology\/DNA titled \u201cFollowing the Transfer of Touch DNA in Simulated Carjackings\u201d<\/p>\n

Nancy S. Miller, M.D<\/u><\/strong>.<\/u> presented an all-day Medical Mycology Workshop at The John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai\u2019i at Manoa, February 11, Oahu, Hawai\u2019i.<\/p>\n

For Dr. Anna Belkina<\/u><\/strong>; https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fimmu.2018.02783\/full<\/a> It\u2019s a # 1 paper in Viral Immunology section (per reads) over last 6 months despite it being online for less than 3 months. She will be talking about this work at a webinar organized by Cytobank on March 20.<\/p>\n

Dr. Belkina<\/u><\/strong> was also invited to talk at FlowTex 2019 conference at MD Anderson Cancer Center Feb 6-7 as a plenary speaker and have presented a talk entitled \u201cRevealing Disease Phenotypes with Computational Analysis of High-Dimensional Flow Cytometry Data\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dr. Dennis Jones<\/u><\/strong> was selected to receive pilot funding from the American Cancer Society Pilot Program at the\u00a0Boston University-Boston Medical Center Cancer Center<\/p>\n

Dr. Jones<\/u><\/strong> also received a Minority and Minority-Serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award from the American Association for Cancer Research<\/p>\n

Nancy S. Miller, M.D<\/u><\/strong>. also presented \u201cClinical Microbiology Update\u201d at Grand Rounds for the Division of Infectious Diseases, December 13th<\/sup><\/p>\n

Dr. Shinichiro Kurosawa <\/u><\/strong>has had his service as a member of the Boston University Laboratory Safety Committee extended through 12\/31\/2020<\/p>\n

Liz Duffy, MA<\/u><\/strong> has been appointed as a voting member of the Boston University Laboratory Safety Committee effective immediately. The term of her appointment is through 12\/31\/2021<\/p>\n

Dr. Kazem Azadzoi<\/u><\/strong> has received a VA Merit Review grant award for his research\u00a0proposal entitled “Regulation of Detrusor Overactivity by Cellular Stress in Bladder Ischemia”<\/p>\n

Timothy Norman, PhD <\/u><\/strong>(Alan Fine Lab) successfully defended his Thesis, \u201cOntogeny and maturation of the lymphatic endothelium in the lung\u201d on Tuesday, February 26th<\/sup>; Bravo Tim!!<\/p>\n

Publications ACCEPTED <\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

Conner SC, Benayoun L, Himali JJ, Adams SL, Yang Q, DeCarli C, Beiser A, Seshadri S, and Delalle I<\/strong><\/span>: Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase-B3 risk allele implicated in Alzheimer\u2019s disease associates with increased odds for brain infarcts. Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/em><\/p>\n

Shoreh R. Fazeli,<\/strong><\/u>Kamyar R. Giglou ,Mahmoud Soliman<\/strong><\/span>, Waleed H. Ezzat, Andrew Salama, Qing Zhao<\/strong><\/span>. Calcifying Epithelial Odontogenic (Pindborg) Tumor in a Child: A Case Report and Literature Review. Head and Neck Pathology Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

Reggie Thomasson, MS, MD<\/strong><\/span>; International Assessment of Massive Transfusion Protocol Contents and Indications for Activation” was accepted for publication in the journal TRANSFUSION<\/em><\/p>\n

Publications PUBLISHED: <\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

Wang Y, Liu C-H, Ji T, Mehta M<\/strong>, <\/u>Wang W, Marino E, Chen J, Kohane DS: Intravenous treatment of choroidal neovascularization by photo-targeted nanoparticles. Nat Commun 2019; (in press)<\/em><\/p>\n

Yang R, Saarinen R, Okonkwo OS, Hao Y,Mehta M<\/strong>, <\/u>Kohane DS: Trans-tympanic delivery of local anesthetics for pain in acute otitis media. Mol Pharm 2019; (in press)<\/em><\/p>\n

Anna C. Belkina<\/a><\/strong>1<\/strong>,2<\/sup>, <\/u>Alina Starchenko3<\/sup>, Katherine A. Drake4<\/sup>, Elizabeth A. Proctor<\/a>3<\/sup>, Riley M. F. Pihl<\/a>1<\/sup>, Alex Olson<\/a>5<\/sup>, Douglas A. Lauffenburger<\/a>3<\/sup>, Nina Lin5\u2020<\/sup> and Jennifer E. Snyder-Capp<\/a>: Multivariate Computational Analysis of Gamma Delta T Cell Inhibitory Receptor Signatures Reveals the Divergence of Healthy and ART-Suppressed HIV+ Aging. Frontiers of Immunology, 05 December 2018 PRESS RELEASE:<\/em>https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/12\/181211112944.htm<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

Latarsha J. Carithers, Rachana Agarwal, Ping Guan, Hana Odeh, Michael C. Sachs, Kelly B. Engel, Sarah R. Greytak, Mary Barcus, Conrado Soria, Chih-Jian (Jason) Lih, P. Mickey Williams, Philip A. Branton, Leslie Sobin, Benjamin Fombonne, Therese Bocklage, Chris Andry<\/strong>,Elizabeth R. Duffy<\/strong>, Gabriel Sica, Rajiv Dhir, Scott Jewell, Nancy Roche, and Helen M. Moore; The Biospecimen Preanalytical Variables Program: A Multiassay Comparison of Effects of Delay to Fixation and Fixation Duration on Nucleic Acid Quality. <\/a><\/u>Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Early Online Release<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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